With a triumph over Francis Ngannou on Jan. 20 in Boston at UFC 220, he’ll turn into the main warrior in organization history to shield the UFC heavyweight title three successive circumstances.

That is a check a portion of the best heavyweights in MMA history, from Randy Couture to Cain Velasquez, haven’t possessed the capacity to break.

In any case, in the event that you’ve been following the UFC 220 buildup on the organization’s end, it’s been Ngannou, the challenger, who has gotten the greater part of the special push. What’s more, that hasn’t gone unnoticed by the champion.

On Monday’s version of The MMA Hour, when asked whether he feels the UFC needs Ngannou to win their headliner session, the normally unflappable Miocic addressed energetically in the confirmed.

“Clearly, without a doubt,” Miocic said. “Tune in, I feel a smidgen disregarded, yet I’m not going to harp on it.”

The UFC made a generally welcomed promo cut for the session which concentrates on Ngannou’s awful knockout of Alistair Overeem at UFC 218, a complete which earned MMA Fighting’s 2017 Knockout of the Year respects. Miocic recognizes the organization needs to concoct a type of motivation to buildup the battle, since he’s not one to participate in fraud junk talk.

“He has more buildup on him I figure,” Miocic said. “The person hits super hard. We’re making a major thing about it. I’ve battled some great folks, you know? That is the manner by which we are. I’m a sorry waste talker I simply jump at the chance to battle, that is my main event.”

On the off chance that anything, the champ trusts the development, with its accentuation on Ngannou as the following huge star, moves all the weight heading into Boston on the upstart challenger.

“All the weight is on him, sincerely. … The best folks he’s confronted, I thumped them out two years back. Along these lines, whatever.”

A year ago, Miocic transparently whined about his agreement with the UFC, taking note of that Overeem was paid more to move him (and lose by means of knockout) at UFC 203 than Miocic made to safeguard the belt. The champ, who has not battled since his completion of previous titleholder Junior dos Santos at UFC 211, says his agreement circumstance has been tended to, however didn’t seem like he needed to talk significantly facilitate regarding the matter.

“I won’t harp on that,” Miocic said. “They dealt with it. They took care of it. No doubt, next inquiry.”

With the goal that takes us back to the up and coming Ngannou battle. A significant part of the interest in the session lies in the obscure: We don’t know how Ngannou charges in profound waters, nor do we know much about what he can do on the ground, in light of the fact that Ngannou has generally completed his adversaries previously the battle can arrive.

“I saw the one accommodation he had against Anthony Hamilton, the Kimura or whatever, I saw that, however I haven’t generally observed any foundation,” Miocic said. “I haven’t generally watched, I’ve seen that battle and Andrei Arlovski’s battle are what I’ve seen watching him battle.”

Past that, Miocic, who is taking two weeks of from his Cleveland-territory work as a firefighter to take the Ngannou battle, wouldn’t influence an expectation on what to will go down when the couple meet underneath the 23 joined NBA and NHL title pennants at TD Garden.

“He unquestionably has the buildup behind him,” Miocic said. “He certainly has the punching power behind him. Along these lines, we’ll see on January 20 how things go.”